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2025

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Latest  events . . .

SLSA events

Reforming Legal and Policy Responses to Investigating and Prosecuting Sexual Violence, QUB: registration now open

Disability and Rights: The possibilities and limits of rights discourse under neoliberalism, online: registration now open

Law, Drugs, and the Moving Body, Manchester

Other events

Behind Closed Books: Money laundering in UK insolvency proceedings, Leeds and online

1885 and its Long Shadow: Sexual offences in historical context, online from the Open University

Book discussion: Domestic Violence in Pakistan: The Legal Construction of ‘Bad’ and ‘Mad’ Women, by Daanika Kamal, online hosted by LassNet

First Women Chief Justices in Conversation, Inner Temple, London

Women Who Will – Summer celebration with Lady Hale, Intercontinental, London

Next 100 Years' Sixth Heilbron Lecture, Old Bailey, London

ERC Advanced Grants Webinar, from the British Academy

Open Justice: Fit for purpose, Green Templeton College, Oxford

WG Hart Workshop 2025 Regulating the Global Movement of Care, IALS, London: programme available

Research Methods Rendezvous, online from NCRM


2025


May

He Said, She Said

Date: 31 May 2025

Venue: Tempest Anderson Hall, York

Speaker: Charlotte Proudman, barrister

See website for details.

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 June

Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking: call for abstracts

Date: 2 June 2025

Venue: online from University of Derby

Registration is free. See announcement for details. 

AcSS Annual Lecture given by Professor Mariana Mazzucato

Date: 3 June 2025

Venue: online from the Academy of Social Sciences

See announcement for details.

Open Justice: Fit for purpose

Date: 4 June 2025

Venue: Green Templeton College, Oxford

Speaker: The Honourable Mr Justice Nicklin

See website for details.

5th Annual UK Animal Law Conference

Dates: 4–5 June 2025

Venue: UK Centre for Animal Law and the Animals, Birmingham University

See website for details.

Surrogacy 'Reforms' and Future Reproductive Technologies

Date: 5 June 2025

Venue: University of Greenwich

See website for details.

Two Years On: Assessing the impact of surrogacy 'reforms' on future reproductive technologies

Date: 5 June 2025

Venue: University of Greenwich

See announcement and website for details.

Book discussion: Domestic Violence in Pakistan: The Legal Construction of ‘Bad’ and ‘Mad’ Women, by Daanika Kamal, online hosted by LassNet

Date: 5 June 2025

Venue: online hosted by LassNet

See announcement for details.

Conference on Judicial Activism and Resistance in Eastern Europe and Beyond 

Dates: 5–6 June 2025

Venue: Institut d'études européennes, Université libre de Bruxelles

See website for details. 

Stories in Law and Law in Stories: The case of assisted dying

Date: 6 June 2025

Venue: University of Southampton

See website for details.

Law and the Critique of Political Economy: 60th Anniversary of Reading Capital

Date: 6–7 June 2025

Venue: Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia

See website for details. 

Law and Death

Date: 8 June 2025

Venue: University of York

Speaker: Professor Heather Conway

See website for details.

PLP, Public Law and Technology Conference

Date: 9 June 2025

Venue: Fieldfisher London

See website for details.

Confronting the Housing Crisis: The bold steps needed to deliver affordable homes for all

Date: 9 June 2025

Venue: Prospect Magazine, London, and online

See website for details.

The Rule of Law in a Changing World

Date: 9 June 2-23

Venue: Royal Holloway University of London

Speaker: Baroness Prentis of Banbury, former Attorney General for England and Wales

See website for details.

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WG Hart Workshop 2025 Regulating the Global Movement of Care

Dates: 11–12 June 2025

Venue: IALS, Charles Clore House, Russell Square, London

See website and programme for details. 

Placing Religion and Sexuality in Conversation not Conflict

Date: 12 June 2025

Venue: University of Bristol

See website for details.

Feminist Jurisprudence Discussion Group Annual Workshop

Date: 13 June 2025

Venue: St Hilda's College, Oxford

See announcement for details.

Legal Action Group Housing Law Conference

Date: 13 June 2025

Venue: BPP University, Holborn, London

See website for details.

 Disability and Rights: The possibilities and limits of rights discourse under neoliberalism

Dates: 13–14 June 2025

Venue: online

See registration link for details and to register. This event is supported by the SLSA Seminar Competition and the University of Leicester and organised by the SLSA Disability Law and Social Justice Stream and the Marxism and Disability Network.

Summer Academy for Feminist Legal Studies 2025

Dates: 13–15 June 2025

Venue: University of Hamburg, Germany

See announcement for details.

ERC Advanced Grants Webinar

Date: 17 June 2025

Venue: online from the British Academy

This webinar is for UK-based researchers in the humanities and social sciences interested in applying for ERC grants. See website for details.

First Women Chief Justices in Conversation

Date: 16 June 2025

Venue: Inner Temple, London

See website. Organised by Next 100 Years.

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Rethinking Gender, Sexuality, and the Law: A Conversation between Feminist Scholars in Postcolonial South Asia and the UK

Dates: 16–17 June 2025

Venue: Centre of Law and Society, Cardiff University

See announcement for details.

ERC Advanced Grants Webinar

Date: 17 June 2025

Venue: online from the British Academy

This webinar for UK-based researchers in the humanities and social sciences interested in applying for European Research Council (ERC) grants. See webpage for details. 

Journalism and the Courts Symposium 2025

Date: 19 June 2025

Venue: University of Salford

See website for details.

UK Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Health

Date: 19 June 2025

Venue: University of Manchester

See website for details.

Reforming Legal and Policy Responses to Investigating and Prosecuting Sexual Violence

Dates: 19–20 June 2025

Venue: Queen's University Belfast

Registration for this in-person event is now open: closing date 9 June 2025. See website for details. This event is supported by the SLSA Seminar Competition.

UK Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Health Conference: Opportunities, challenges and the vulnerabilities of health throughout the life course

Dates: 19–20 June 2025

Venue: University of Manchester

Speakers: Professor Amy T. Campbell, University of Illinois; Dr Nigel Stobbs, Queensland University of Technology; Dr John Stannard, Queen’s University Belfast

See announcement for details.

Justice for the Disappeared

Date: 20 June 2025

Venue: Pembroke College, Oxford

Speaker: Professor Phil Scraton, University of Belfast

See website for details.

British Academy Summer Showcase

Dates: 20–21 June 2025

Venue: British Academy, London

See website for details.

Valuation, Space and Power ECR Workshop

Dates: 23–24 June 2025

Venue: University of Sheffield

See announcement for details. 

Rethinking Consent in Light of Scientific and Technological Advances

Date: 24 June 2025

Venue: University of Edinburgh

See website for details.

Women Who Will – Summer celebration with Lady Hale

Date: 25 June 2025

Venue: Intercontinental, London

See website for details. Organised by Next 100 Years.

New Perspectives on Law and Literature

Date: 26 June 2025

Venue: Birkbeck Law School 

See website for details.

Minority Languages in Courtrooms the United Kingdom and Ireland

Date: 27 June 2025

Venue: online from University of Aberystwyth and Trinity College Dublin

See website for details. 

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'Law in Context': Early Career Workshop

Dates: 26–27 June 2025

Venue: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford

See poster and announcement for details. 

The Legal World of Family Migration

Date: 27 June 2025

Venue: online from the Universities of Exeter and Bristol

See announcement for details. 

Summer School: Introduction to Experimental Methods in Social Sciences: Surveys, Laboratory and Field Experiments

Dates: 30 June–4 July 2025

Venue: NCRM, University of Southampton

See website for details.

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 July

Next 100 Years' Sixth Heilbron Lecture

Date: 1 July 2025

Venue: Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, London

Speaker:  Dr Rumiana Yotova, University of Cambridge

See website for details.

Workshop: In the Name of National Security: The fragility of human rights

Date: 3 July 2025

Venue: Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, Madrid

Co-hosted by the Centre for Public Law at the University of Cambridge and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. See announcement for details.

The Impeachment of Warren Hastings: The First Governor General of India

Dates: 3–4 July 2025

Venue: University of Worcester

Speaker: Dame Linda Colley

See website for details.

Racial Justice, Equity and Power Conference

Date: 9 July 2025

Venue: University of Suffolk, Ipswich

See website for details.

1885 and its Long Shadow: Sexual offences in historical context

Date: 11 July 2025

Venue: online from the Open University

See website for details. Hosted by The Open University Legal Histories Research Cluster and the British Sociological Association Global Histories and Sociology Study Group.

Behind Closed Books: Money Laundering in UK Insolvency Proceedings

Date: 17 July 2025

Venue: School of Law, University of Leeds and online

See announcement for details. Registration is open.

Taking Secrets to the Grave

Date: 25 July 2025

Venue: Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

See website for details.

2025 Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute

Dates: 28 July–8 August 2025

Venue: Jesus College, Oxford

See website for details. 

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 August

Law, Drugs, and the Moving Body

Date: 25 August 2025

Venue: University of Manchester

See website for details. This event is supported by the SLSA Seminar Competition.

Nordic Law and Gender Conference 2025: Against all odds

Dates: 28–29 August 2025

Venue: University of Copenhagen

See website for details. 

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September

Critical Legal Conference 2025, University of Exeter: call for papers for 'Law and process' stream

Dates: 4–6 September 2025

Venue: University of Exeter

See call for papers for details. Closing date: 1 August 2025. Registration is now open. 

Research Methods Rendezvous

Dates: 10 September and 29 October 2025

Venue: online from NCRM

See website for details.

Responsible AI in Health Care

Dates: 10–12 September 2025

Venue: Rotterdam, The Netherlands

See announcement for details. 

The Vulnerable Accused in the Criminal Justice System: call for papers

Dates: 10–11 September 2025

Venue: Cardiff University

See announcement for details. Call closes: 2 June 2025.

Inclusive Legal Education Conference

Date: 11 September 2025

Venue: Leeds Beckett University

See website for details.

25 Years of the Human Rights Act

Date: 18 September 2025

Venue: Liberty Building, University of Leeds

See website for details. 

Contemporary Issues and Challenges in Commercial Law: call for papers

Dates: 24–25 September 2025

Venue: Swansea University

See announcement for details. Call closes: 15 June 2025.

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October

SAFI Annual Conference

Date: 9–10 October 2025

Venue: University of Amsterdam

Theme: Reimagining Justice

See booklet and website for details. Call extended to 5 June 2025. Bursaries are available: contact the organisers for details.

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November

From Binary to Bench: Empowering equal opportunities and AI literacy in global legal education

Date: 5 November 2025

Venue: University of Reading, Whiteknights Campus, and online

See website for details. This is an SLS-funded symposium organised by Dr Melanie Stockton-Brown and Dr Basak Bak. 

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December

Resistance and Agency in the Digital Society: Beyond Literacy, transparency, and risk assessment: call for papers

Date: 15 December 2025

Venue: University of Lausanne,  Switzerland

See announcement for details of the cfp. This event is the Law and Society Initiative (IDES) Annual Conference. Call closes: 20 June 2025.


2026

March

Modern Studies in Property Law: call for papers

Dates: 30 March–1 April 2026

Venue: University of Southampton

See announcement for details. Call closes: 15 September 2025.

 

 

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